Final Fantasy XIII was, at once, everything right and wrong with the modern Japanese RPG. It delivered on the spectacle, but seemingly at the cost of cutting down on the exploration and complexity that drew us all into JRPGs. The experience of those dim days of playing earlier FFs all night long in rooms lit only by the glow of CRTs, so engrossed we might as well have fallen into the worlds they laid out for us to explore? Gone. There was no room for that, Final Fantasy XIII was an experience,...
